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'NITED FLORENCE MCCARTHY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

imeadvsmsnrin CUFF-BUTTONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. H'Mbflflll, dated J nnc24, 1873; application filed April 12, 18773.

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Figure 1 is afront ,view of a cufi button embodying my said invention;and Fig. 2 is a central section taken on the line a- .r, drawn acrossFig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicatelike parts i in both figures of thedrawing.

My invention relates more especially to that class of buttons used inuniting the two edges the separate parts of the bosoinand.has for itsobject to so arrange the same, as to be readily introduced, and tofirmly hold the separate parts of the cloth one against the other; andto that end the improvement con-v sists in providing the button with anovelshaped tongue, adapted to pass through the button-hole in thecloth,the tongue acting to compress the cloth against the parallel surface ofthe button, whereby-the shank of the tongue is secured within andthrough the buttonhole, thus uniting the two parts of the cloth..

1n the drawing, A represents the button proper, which may be of anyknown forth, and of any requisite design of configurtffion; B is thetongue, which is made of sheet metal, and

is permanently-attached to the inner face of the button. 'lhis tongue isbent at a right angle to the face, and at a point near midway betweenthe center and periphery of the button, forming a shank, a, as shown inFig. 2. This shank extends from the'face of the but ton a slightdistance, and is there bent at an obtuse angle toward the periphery ofthe but ton, as shown at b, the said bent position ex-' tending past thecenter of the button to a point near midway between its centerandperiphery, and is there bent to a parallel with the face of thebutton, and extends to a point slightly beyond the periphery, as shownat c. The arrangement'ot' this tongue is such that as the shank a isintroduced into the buttonhole by passing the forward portion of thetongue through the saine'the post Got the tongne'bearsupon the vcloth,therbyeompressing the same betweenthe tongue and parallel surface of thebutton, thus firmly holding the shank 41 within and through thebutton-hole, thereby uniting the two edges of the cloth. of a shirt-cufi-bu-t it may be used in uniting I am aware thatshirt-studs have beenused,

which are secured to the cloth by means of a tions a, b, and c, the partof acting to compress the cloth against the parallelsurtitceofthebutton, substantially as described. v

The above specification of my invention signed by me .this 10th day ofDecember,

1872. I v FLonnrcE MCCARTHY.

- Witnesses:

N.-1I. SHERBURNE, J. W. MERRIAM.

